CasaTunes Forum

Does WMP+CT need Windows Search Indexer?

2013-04-04T10:41:12Z

I’m wondering how many background services I can eliminate
to reduce overheard and improve performance.
Especially with an SSD as my system drive,
Search isn’t necessary and adds read cycles I don’t want.

Windows Media Player must be running, I understand,
but do I need Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service,
which is dependent on Search Indexer?

-G

Updating to 4.50.130309 breaks license

2013-03-11T18:37:10Z

I’m curious if anyone else had this experience:

Updated to the latest version of CasaTunes, 4.50.130309
the library refresh is much improved after the install, but I wanted to test.

So I did a manual stop-and start via the web interface. No problem, still fast.

Then I rebooted the hardware, refresh went great, and now CT won’t start.

It thinks I have an evaluation copy. Won’t activate.

I’ve left a very calm voicemail for tech support.

Hrm.

UPDATE: Another reboot and now everything is working correctly,
including the annoying bug that turns on the music even though all rooms were off before the reboot.

UPDATE 2: The search function has been improved as well. It appears to default to the AND operator,
so searching for ‘de la soul’ returns just that artist.

This is possibly better news than the library refresh.

Thank you to the CasaTunes team for two significant improvements.

building a new casatunes pc question

2011-08-26T14:15:42Z

I am currently running casatunes on a dual core intel processor dell PC that is very power hungry and heats up easily. I am wanting to go green and conserve power with a more efficient PC.

My question is if I build a smaller pc with just a SSD 40GIG hardrive to store Windows 7 and casatunes will I loose any functunality pulling all of my music from a Qnap NAS vs. having it stored on the PC? Will I have any issues with syncing or album art?

I look forward to your response, thank you.

Jason Baxter

SoftMatrix Info?

2012-11-16T15:44:15Z

Hi guys,

The soft matrix that is in beta in the latest release sounds interesting!

Do you have any preliminary info on what it does and how it works - have a system coming up that might benefit from it.

Thanks

Rob

Long time to build library on restart

2013-01-13T12:57:39Z

Whenever I have to restart my server, it takes a long time to rebuild the library before I can run Casatunes again. This is a huge pain in the neck when troubleshooting especially, but even in normal operation when we have a glitch that requires a restart.

I realize that, given my large library, any rebuild will take a long time. But in a future version, would it be possible to avoid going through the rebuild process on every reboot? Perhaps you could have it save the library periodically so that it doesn’t need to rebuild on reboot. Or at least use the saved version on reboot while it rebuilds in the background. Or something. Anything.

Thanks.

two way operation with URC

2011-01-05T12:44:35Z

Any chance you are working on a two way module for the newer two-way URC remotes?

SoftSwitch beta feedback

2012-11-07T12:42:18Z

I thought the team at CasaTunes would like to know that this beta feature does not appear working on our showroom machine.

If you select SoftSwitch as the controller type and then press sources the setup app crashes and shows the following message:

Server Error in ‘/CasaSetup’ Application.
————————————————————————————————————————

Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.

Source Error:

Line 11: cs.Matrix.MatrixFeatures)
Line 12: If cs.Sources(ExtInputsOnly) IsNot Nothing Then
Line 13: SourceID.Value = cs.Sources(ExtInputsOnly)(0).ID
Line 14: Else
Line 15: Return 0

Source File: C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\CasaSetup\Sources.aspx.vb Line: 13

Stack Trace:

[IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.]
Sources.get_CurrentSourceID() in C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\CasaSetup\Sources.aspx.vb:13
Sources.OnInit(EventArgs e) in C:\Program Files\Windows Server\Bin\webapps\site\CasaSetup\Sources.aspx.vb:179
System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +133
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1970

————————————————————————————————————————
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.272

I thought that as the software is in beta stage any feedback would be useful.

How do I install casatunes on my new computer and get it off of my old one?

2012-08-09T19:57:28Z

Okay, here is the deal. My old computer is going and I built a new one with windows 7 pro 64bit. I am hooking up to a Russound Cav 6.6. I don’t have a serial port on the back of the new computer but I do have usb to serial adapter that I use with my Russound Tools that I have hooked up to the computer now. It has recognized the serial but I am wondering what the best process to install all of the software would be? I am going to try right now so I may figure it out but I am just wanting to check with the experts on here to see if there is anything special I need to do.

wont complete hardware initialization

2012-06-03T08:05:28Z

Hi,

My casatunes service does not get past the ‘completed hardware initialization’ after restarting service.
it builds both the itunes and media center librarys fine, an old playlist even starts to play a song (this has stopped now as i left the system on for a few days to see if it would get past where it gets stuck) but both the media center page for casatunes a.net 3.5nd the ipad app will not show the normal menus.

PC is running Vista

The problems seemed to start after some windows updates but i cant be sure, the last listed updates in the update history are .Net items, i have tried to repair .net 3.5 but this did not resolve

Any ideas?

thanks

Adjust buffering for internet radio stations

2012-05-26T12:32:39Z

Hello,
We are in an area of the world where internet is not as consistent as the US.
We often experience gaps in playback of internet radio stations due to poor internet from ISP.
These outages, gaps in music, last a few seconds typically.
I was wondering if there was a way to set the amount of pre-buffering for all internet music sources.
For example, set the system to buffer up to 2 minutes in advance (of course assuming memory available on host)
I am not sure if internet music streaming services even allow this, but was hopeful for some direction.
Thanks
Sean